A new fleet of mobile camera vans will be rolled out to catch speeding motorists across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
It follows almost £700,000 funding from Police and Crime Commissioner Donna Jones as part of her commitment to make the 2 counties’ roads safer.
The Safer Roads Unit uses the vehicles to keep motorists focused on driving to the speed limit and ultimately saving lives.
The current fleet of vans and operators cover over 250 different locations. Sites are chosen because people have suffered serious or fatal injuries there or to meet community concern over speeding motorists.
The PCC said:
“Improving road safety is a cornerstone of my commitment to protecting communities across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
“The vans are an agile and responsive means to do that.
“Between January and December last year, these nine vans captured 37,384 offences.
Article continues below this advertisement “Undoubtedly this helped prevent further tragedies from occurring on our roads.”
The money will be spent on replacing the current fleet over the next 4 years. The new vehicles will be fitted with the most up-to-date technology including active remote sensors that use laser pulses to create precise 3D maps and models of objects, terrain, and environments; HD video and fully-surround camera imaging.
The PCC added:
“While proving highly dynamic, these vans are up to 16 years old and need upgrading.
“Without this investment, they’ll end up being taken off the roads – leaving them without the critical enforcement needed to keep them safe.
“But it’s important to recognise that road safety is a shared responsibility. It doesn’t matter if we’re heading to work, doing the school run or popping to the shops, everyone has the right to use the roads without fear of injury.”
1,286 people were killed or seriously injured on the roads of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight between October 2024 and September 2025 according to the Office for National Statistics.
Earlier this year, the PCC held her inaugural Road Safety Summit where she announced major investment for road safety projects alongside the creation of new Roads Policing Tasking Team with a focus on the ‘Fatal Five’ – speeding, drink or drug driving, distraction, not wearing a seatbelt, and careless driving.
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Note that they call it road safety to justify paying too much for these new “gimme some more money” equipment. What its really about is more vans more money and most people know it’s about how many speeding fines they can get to get the £££££
Not a problem, don’t speed then you won’t get a fine.
WHY DO PEOPLE SPEED!!
It may be because they are in a hurry or it may be just habit in the same way that some people constantly post moans
Because they are idiots as well as numpties. Well you missed that opportunity to mention your numpties.
Hampshire statistics have absolutely NOTHING to do with the Island. Totally irrelevant. I’d rather see that money going on Bobbies on the beat. They can also see speeding driver’s. Take number plates… Or is it more about revenue??
but the ‘bobby on the beat’ would need to be carrying a legal, calibrated, speed camera..
it’s no good them just guessing that someone is speeding, & taking their number plate… it’d get laughed out of court
A.I speed cameras are the answer, make the most
of modern technology.
At present you will be amazed how many vehicles drive
around with NO MOT which means their insurance will be void.
Just go on mot vehicle history and key in some
registrations. YOU WILL BE SHOCKED!
This is due to the island activist EiE without doubt.
Nice one.
The truth hurts.
Activist. Lol
More like common sense.
If you don’t speed you will have no worries
20mph is still plenty, but the island have not caught
up with that rule YET!!
It is coming soon.
Absolutely! But then again, if dropping the speed limit to 20mph is good then surely on that logic 10mph would be better. That of course could be improved on again by limiting all vehicles to walking speed, possibly with a man with a red flag walking ahead of the vehicle. Ah, the good old days when the roads were safe and people stayed put.
Whats the betting they replace the vehicles for around 200K and pocket the rest?
Milk the motorist, very easy option for generating cash to compensate for mismanagement and over spending on jollies.
The main problems are the old farts, driving at 20mph, line of cars behind trying to get somewhere, not even noticed in the farts mirrors, cos they dont use them.
People pushing in across traffic, blocking one lane, the ones at a junction turning left, won’t look right just pull out, hoping for the best. Suddenly stopping to let someone out of a side road.
Not someone who had a drink or a ‘joint’ hours before and is now totally fit to drive, tho shows up when tested and suddenly they are the Devil, driving to kill everyone.
Absolute bollocks.
And we pay them with our council tax ?? What a fucked up situation
20mph is plenty, too many B’stards are driving wrecklessly
at speed on island roads.
Heavy fines and bans will stop the numpties.
I can’t decide whether you are very young, naive or of the older generation like me, although that would surprise me as I can remember the milkman on his horse and cart doing more than 20 MPH down the high street. Poor driving is the problem but it’s won’t make the same money as hitting speeders.
Made my day that has!
About time too!k the more the better.
“IT WILL STOP THE NUMPTIES SPEEDING”
We need Khan like cameras islandwide that will
finally put a stop to wreckless driving and speeding.
It also generates plenty of revenue that can be used to
make the island a safer place.
It is 2026 and there are still “NO” permit charging down roads.
So many money opportunities out there.
Nonces and drug dealers need to be given priority. As speed camera van is a speed camera van what ever it’s age and it is still victimizing motorists
The country needs more police.
You really talk/write a lot of shit. If they kept to the speed limit, no one would bother with them.
Assume there are no potholes that need filling.
Safety first eh!?
It’s got nothing to do with safety, it’s just a tax collection service. They should be concentrating on poor driving and dangerously slow drivers, if you are not confident enough to drive to the speed limit you shouldn’t be driving. Cars are safer than they have ever been, with more speed limit signs and yet there are more accidents = POOR DRIVERS
Why do the vans need changing ? Maybe you could update the cameras but the vans are perfectly alright. It’s not like the island vans have done any millage. VW vans last forever. Just another waste of money, you could pay an extra bobby on the beat with that amount of money. The vans are perfectly serviceable and would last for years !
Also it’s proven that driving at 20mph is far worse for the environment
Can somebody explain to me the logic of announcing where these vans will be or always placing them in the same place? They’d be much more effective if deployed at random on known speeding spots and would have the advantage that drivers would not know when they were going to get trapped.
Same revenue, better effect.
The article says-they’re put in places where serious accidents have happened, or where the residents are concerned about speeding drivers.
37,384 speeding offences? It needs much stronger laws and fines and even having the vehicle taken and crushed. Stop farting about and do something more positive.